doesn't do it, take a look at the crime in Prince George's County, Maryland, and how it is dealt with. This county is a DC exurb, and has major problems going back a long way. I don't believe that anyone in the WashPost circulation area was surprised by this development. Horrible but unfortunately predictable, given some of the things that have gone on during the past twenty years.

Recently Maryland suspended the use of the death penalty by not revising lethal injection techniques. Might there be a connection with the absence of an effective death penalty for cop killers and either White's choice to cold-bloodedly kill a policeman in a parking lot or the guards' belief that they needed to take revenge via vigilante justice to send a message to other prospective cop-killers?

between the death penalty rules in this state and this murder. Prince George's County has a death penalty for those who fall afoul of the wrong cop on the wrong day.

The cold, hard fact of the matter is that this is how things are done in Prince George's County, Maryland. The PG County Police have a long, well-documented history of killing Black men (and women), pretty much with impunity. The Washington Post did a massive expose of that department's long history of killing and assaulting suspects. Only rarely have any of the killer cops (as opposed to alleged "cop killers") ever been brought to justice.

A recent cases illustrates the state of affairs in my home county quite well. An innocent, law-abiding man named Prince Jones was stalked and killed by an undercover PG cop. Jones was pursued, wrongly as it turned out, across state lines (and across the Potomac River) by a cop who mistakenly ID'd him as a drug dealer. The cop ended up shooting a college student with no criminal record down on a Virginia cul-de-sac. Naturally, the cop was cleared of all wrongdoing, then took early retirement due to the stress of killing the wrong man.

The Prince Jones case is typical of the behavior of cops over there. They also have a habit of coercing confessions out of suspects, which may explain why White was fingered as the driver of the stolen vehicle by another suspect. (Many here have noted that the charging documents give no other evidence of his involvement in the crime.) The reason the Feds immediately took control of the investigation is because the PG Police spent years under Federal investigation for their rampant abuses of power.